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Weekend Edition guest host Don Gonyea speaks with Silvio Pietroluongo of Billboard Magazine about the recent changes to the formula for the "Hot 100" chart. Billboard now incorporates the number of views on YouTube to determine the top songs in the country.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Cecilia Rouse, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, about Biden's State of the Union address and the impact of the war in Ukraine on the U.S. economy.

Conscience or incompetence? Two competing narratives — along partisan lines — have emerged to explain the sudden departure of the head of the Federal Student Aid Office.

David Gura speaks to Cecilia Rouse, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, about the health of the U.S. economy amid inflation, supply chain interruptions and labor shortages.

President Bush arrives at the G-8 summit in Germany on Wednesday with a new plan on climate change as leaders of major industrialized countries gather for three days. But a bitter debate over missile defense looms over the talks.

The Senate is expected to turn down the president's jobs package. In Liberia, new Nobel laureate President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf seeks reelection.

Also: The House passes a transportation bill but doesn't fund all of it; there'll be fewer candidates onstage at the next GOP presidential debate; and a double-facing Picasso painting is auctioned.

Also: Protests over a fatal Minneapolis police shooting of an unarmed black man; an emergency in Washington state after a storm; and an Irish visitor gets his GoPro camera wrong on a Vegas trip.

Also: A gas pipeline exploded in Alabama, killing 1 person; enrollment opens today for the Affordable Care Act; and President Obama will hold an interview on Snapchat today.

Also: President Obama meets German Chancellor Merkel; uncontrolled wildfires continue to burn in the southern U.S.; and the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout is today.